>>150219Well, what do you plan on doing /out/? There's quite a lot of different activities out there, and no ultimate tool for all of them.
Still, it's better to start with simple things that you have at your disposal. As you learn and make mistakes, you'll learn more about the capabilities of your tools, and more importantly, their limitations. And you will naturally see which tool is fine and which one requires an upgrade.
My advice would be to go /out/ with that Leatherman and learn from it. Even if you have to do it just once and then realize it's shit and switch to something else, at least you won't just pick a fixed blade without knowing why you did it.
It's much better than going head first to Amazon and ordering a dozen knives. I've done it, and I have a crate full of expensive shit I'll never use, and which I can't even sold because part of it is broken, and the rest is so shit no one wants it, even for free.
As for hatchets, there's hardly cheaper than a Fiskars, and they're also very good. Their plastic handle may scare you, but it's actually really sturdy, and some people have been using those for years without any problem.
